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I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.

Brent Scowcroft

We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.
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Explain Forthcoming Region Something
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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Country People United States World
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.
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Age Dangerous Elements Islamic
I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they’re nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it’s dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.
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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Saddam’s ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can’t do what used to be done with that kind of strength.
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Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they’re the West’s whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace

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